News One Liner: 19-June-2025

  1.  The Department of Consumer Affairs, in collaboration with CSIR–NPL and ISRO, launched the Time Dissemination Project and Legal Metrology (IST) Rules 2025 to enforce millisecond-level Indian Standard Time across all key sectors.
  2. Mizoram signed an MoU with Digital India’s BHASHINI platform to integrate Mizo language into digital governance, empowering tribal communities with AI-powered translation and multilingual access.
  3. The 22nd monthly Secretariat Reforms report for May 2025 highlighted ₹799.92 crore scrap revenue, 0.66 lakh files weeded, 95.47% e‑file adoption, and significant reduction in file levels—enhancing administrative efficiency.
  4. The Ministry of Panchayati Raj will sign an MoU with BHASHINI to deploy AI-based translation on eGramSwaraj and other platforms, enabling governance in local languages nationwide.
  5. The Ministry of Power’s announcement of a second tranche of Viability Gap Funding (VGF) will support 30 GWh standalone battery energy storage systems across 15 states, attracting ₹33,000 crore investment by 2028.
  6. The government allocated its 200th coal block, reaffirming sectoral reforms, and CG Power secured its largest-ever ₹641 crore transformer order from Power Grid Corporation.
  7. CG Power and Industrial Solutions Ltd has won its largest-ever single order worth ₹641 crore from Power Grid Corporation to supply and service 765 kV/400 kV transformers and reactors.
  8. Vedanta subsidiary Hindustan Zinc will invest ₹12,000 crore to add 250 ktpa in zinc, lead, and silver production via a new Debari smelter, doubling capacity within 36 months.
  9. RBI’s Supervisory Data Quality Index (sDQI) for Scheduled Commercial Banks improved to 89.3 in March 2025 from 88.6 a year ago, reflecting enhanced data accuracy, timeliness, completeness and consistency.
  10. SBI’s fiscal report shows that FY26 net government borrowing is ₹2.4 lakh crore, out of ₹3.2 lakh crore gross raised so far—aligning with the FRBM debt‑to‑GDP target of 56.1%.
  11. India recorded a 6.3% annual growth in export share from 2010 to 2023—the fastest rate among major economies, notably outpacing the EU (3.9%), US (3.9%), and China (6.1%) per UNCTAD.
  12. Ahead of RBI’s 30 September 2025 deadline, 73% of ATMs now dispense ₹100 or ₹200 notes from at least one cassette, up from 65% in December 2024—enhancing small‑denomination access.
  13. The DPIIT has proposed repealing the 141-year-old Explosives Act, 1884, seeking stakeholder inputs by July 17, 2025, to introduce a modernized law fit for current industrial needs.
  14. Karnataka government initiated an AI Workforce Impact Survey to assess AI’s effects on job roles and skills, informing its upcoming IT Policy 2025 and NIPUNA Karnataka.
  15. Bihar cabinet sanctioned six ₹25 crore airports under UDAN, MSP for chana, masoor, mustard, land for industrial zones, 5G-equipped buildings, hotel projects, SAP extensions, and a river sand study.
  16. UK House of Commons voted 379–137 to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales by removing criminal penalties for women self-managing pregnancies, updating the 1861 Offences Act.
  17. At the 2025 Paris Air Show, VietJet signed a MoU to purchase 100 A321neo single-aisle jets, with an option for 50 more, in a deal worth approximately $9.4 billion.
  18. Indian opener Smriti Mandhana has returned to the top of the ICC Women’s ODI batting rankings with 727 rating points, the first time since November 2019.
  19. At the ISSF World Cup in Munich (8–15 June), India secured four medals (2 gold, 2 bronze) and finished third in the overall standings behind China and Norway.
  20. World Table Tennis (commercial wing of ITTF) has launched WTT India, pledging US $3–5 million over the next 2–3 years to build events, talent pipelines, and make India a global TT hub.
  21. Observed on June 19, 2025, World Sickle Cell Day emphasizes the theme “Tell It Loud”, urging global communities to amplify sickle cell voices, strengthen care systems, and prioritize newborn and prenatal screening.

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